On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Arthur Richards
<arichards(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It would be awesome if we could put together a devroom
at FOSDEM.
Agreed. If is going to do it I'd love to be involved. I've helped with
the cross-desktop dev rooms in previous years.
Over the last couple of years, FOSDEM has become my
favorite
conference. The ethos of the conference is fantastic - totally
grassroots, transparent, and open. It draws an unbelievable crowd. The
technical breadth and depth of the talks is generally impressive. And
the Wikimedia/Mediawiki-related talks pack the rooms - at least they
did the last couple of years. We should have a much bigger presence at
this event - from my perspective, it seems like it is a fantastic
learning, community building, and recruiting opportunity - perhaps
even more so than most of the other conferences at which we have a
presence.
If folks think this would be something cool to do, it might also be
worth teaming with some other similarly-minded orgs with some overlap
- like Mozilla, Creative Commons, OLPC, CiviCRM, etc. From the
invitation for proposals, it sounds like this would increase our odds
at securing a devroom, it would certainly help us further
cross-pollinate, and ultimately strengthen the broader open source
community.
Mozilla had their own room in previous years. In general teaming up
with other like-minded projects does increase the chances.
Cheers
Lydia
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